Catherine the Great wrote over two dozen plays and operettas. This work covers Oh, These Times (1772), a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society, and The Siberian Shaman (1786) focussing on superstition.
The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and 18th Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main s..
Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere "seed" of modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on stage. This book cha..
Originally published in 1971. By selecting the articles on the basis of the play in performance and arranging them according to various aspects of the..